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PARTY LINE-Louise Baker-Whittlesey House ($2.50). Nostalgic glimpses of Mayfield, Calif, a generation ago show how Blossom Tramlin, the town menace, becomes the town heroine; how Miss Elmira stops a run on the bank by general blackmail. Soap opera sentiment and humor...
There is nothing like common salt for the common cold, says Dr. Harry Adler of Elmira, N.Y. He recommends an ounce of a strong salt solution at the first sniffle, and more ten hours later, as the nose begins to run. No matter how thirsty the patient gets, he should drink very little water. This is the absolute contradiction of a favorite cold recipe. Dr. Adler says no harm is done by his salt-the body already contains 30 times that much. Only drawback: for some people, brine is an emetic...
...nose. The fluid is eventually drawn off in the blood and discharged in the urine. The salt goes off that way, too, within 24 hours. Keeping the nose dry, he believes, makes a patient less susceptible to secondary infection. His method has been used in Elmira Reformatory's hospital for four years-about 1,300 colds so far-and Dr. Adler says the patients' noses are drier, their temperatures lower, than on standard treatment...
...Army glider pilots, like Army gliders, were rare as four-leaf clovers. Few air experts knew what gliders could do (except for what they had read about Crete). As far as the U.S. public was concerned, gliding was still a game for a few nutty newsreel daredevils around Elmira...
...glider enthusiasts had persisted, forming 180 clubs, held contests each June, supervised by the Sparing Society of America, among the green hills of Elmira, N.Y. Glider pilots flew as far as 290 miles on air currents...